Friday, August 23, 2013

Chelsea Manning (nee Bradley Manning) was just sentenced to 35 years in prison for, among other things, passing to Wikileaks documents revealing outrageous secret U.S. government behavior, including the shocking extent of collusion between the Clinton State Department and TransCanada during its attempts to construct a tar sands oil pipeline across the environmentally vulnerable Ogallala Aquifer in the Sandhills region of western Nebraska, resulting in eminent domain condemnation of the land of farmers and ranchers even in the absence of a pipeline permit, which still has not been granted to TransCanada.

The
emails released today are a smoking gun that show how oil industry
lobbying money has corrupted the State Department’s review of Keystone
XL. They come out just after it was revealed that the State Department
relied on a major TransCanada contractor to conduct its environmental
review and public hearings on Keystone XL, and Wikileaks cables showed
that other officials at the department gave the company tips on how to
get the pipeline approved.

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.